ML19296D510
| ML19296D510 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Wood River Junction |
| Issue date: | 01/16/1980 |
| From: | Stevenson R NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS) |
| To: | Bowers C UNC RECOVERY SYSTEMS, UNITED NUCLEAR CORP. (SUBS. OF UNC, INC.) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8003040702 | |
| Download: ML19296D510 (1) | |
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~ 70-820 United Nuclear Corporation ATTN: Mr. C. E. Bowers, General Manager UNC Recovery Systems One Narragansett Trail Wood River Junction, Rhode Island 02894 Gentlemen:
We have received your letters dated May 21, July 6, and July 17, 1979 concerning proposed administrative amendments to License SNM-777 and changes in safety pers onnel. In view of Mr. Helgeson's extensive experience in radiological safety, we have no objection to the deletion from Subsection 202 of the degree requirement for the position (Manager, Nuclear and Industrial Safety) to which he has been assigned. However, we cannot agree to the general substitution of equivalent experience for the degree reHrement for technical specialists, as you have proposed in the second pa iph under " Personnel Qualifications" "l'in Subsection 202 of your license. The segree requirement for technical safety specialists is common to all " broad" SN.i licenses. We are willing to review the qualifications of education and experience for proposed exceptions to the degree requirement on a case-by-case basis. In summary, in perfoming the duties of Manager, Nuclear and Industrial Safety, Mr. Helgeson may act as a specialist in Health Physics, but not as a specialist in criticality safety.
To make up for Mr. Helgeson's lack of expertise in nuclear criticality safety, you have used consultants from the UNC Naval Products plant at Montville, but you have made no clear commitment as to the frequency or duration of their visits or nature of their duties. We request that you provide such a commit-ment, in the fom of a proposed amendment to Section 200, as an alternative to the existing requirement for continuing onsite nuclear criticality safety expe rtise.
We request that you revise the proposed amendment making further changes to accommodate the foregoing comments.
Sincerely, d
AAw Robert L. Stevenson Uranium Process Licensing Section Uranium Fuel Licensing Branch Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety 800304o 762